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Sunday, February 28, 2016

How Big Does Big Have to be Before It's Too Big?

Whether the Obama administration has time to do much more with yet another big merger proposal or not, one question that one can ask here is this: Has he shown all that much leadership in the opposition to the further concentration of market reach by major corporations? I think the answer is spotty at best; precisely what you'd expect from a liberal who would want to keep his base at least partially placated. And even though Clinton has indicated her oppostion to past big drug mergers, can we expect her to be all that much different than Obama when the rubber finally meets the road? You are a good deal more of an optomist than I am if you think so.

About Me

I am retired now, but I used to make my living as a Systems Analyst\Developer.

As my real passion has always been ideas, writing, reading, social change and music I am devoting myself to all of these. The primary focus, however is on social change.

It is my firm belief that Capitalism is obsolete. It has been rendered so because of electrified information systems. Not only do these make human skill as a commodity absurd, they also turn information into money, and money into information. At the very least, this reality makes representational Democracy virtually impossible because it can longer move freely. As a commodity it is necessarily subject to the net gain requirement in any exchange. As such information flow is seldom conducted for the benefit of the receiver.